Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
National Language
China, Taiwan
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
Similar To
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French and Portuguese Languages
Derived From
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Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
grazie
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Come stai?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
buonanotte
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
buonasera
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
buon pomeriggio
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
buongiorno
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Per Favore
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
arrivederci
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ti amo
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Scusami
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Romanesco
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Lazio
Dialect 2
Wu
Central Italian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Italiano
Alternative Names
Not Available
Italiano
French Name
chinois
italien
German Name
Chinesisch
Italienisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[itaˈljaːno]
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Romance
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Italian
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
itas
Glottocode
sini1245
ital1282
Linguasphere
79-AAA
51-AAA-q
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Chinese and Italian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Italian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Italian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Italian word for "Thank You" is grazie. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Italian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Italian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Italian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Italian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Italian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Italian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Italian time required is 24 weeks.